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Kill Six Billion Demons

03-06-2014, 04:22 AM

Okay so the friggin wonderful piece of art known as Kill Six Billion Demons is a relatively new webcomic but why haven't I heard about it till now? I'm glad Solar posted it on the Exalted Media thread but honestly this needs its own thread! I just read all of it so far and its friggin outstanding! Its very rare to have something of this caliber in either writing or visual depictions but to have them both together?!

I recommend when you read it you read the message in the comment section of almost each new page from the creator as a brief piece of art or a wonderful piece of writing follows, often in response to comments from previous pages.

Seriously this is brilliant, one of the best comics if not stories I've seen. Its a great example of the out there cool fiction outside the default western approach, and a good inspiration for exalted if you want more exotic style beyond the Chinese and Japanese motiffs. Its a satisfying blend of gnostic, hindu, and comic book sci fi! And one of the main characters is a Kung Fu Angel Monk! Its honestly great primordial inspiration that can be applied to Yu-Shan or Malfeas!

1. YISUN said: let there not be a genesis, for beginnings are false and I am a consummate liar.

2. The full of it is this – the circular suicide of God is is the perfection of matter.

3. YISUN lied once and said he had nine hundred and ninety nine thousand names. This is true, but it is also a barefaced lie. The true name of God is I.

4. Living is an exercise of violence. Exercise of violence is the fate of living

5. Violence is circular. Perception is not circular and lacks flawlessness- therefore, rejoice in imperfect things, for their rareness is not lacking!

6. Love of self is the true exercise of the God called I.

7. Only an idiot cannot place his absolute certainty in paradoxes. The divine suicide is a perfect paradox. A man cannot exist without paradox – that is the full of it.

II.

THE KING IN THE TOWER

1. YISUN is the supreme king.

2. YISUN has, had, and will have no equal or rival save YISUN, for none may surpass YISUN in the perfect art of continual self annihilation.

3. YISUN was the untouchable and prime master of all seven syllables of royalty but only knew four exquisite ways of lying. The first four are:

i. Lying of substance – the illusion of corporeality

ii. Lying of emptiness – the illusion of differential space

iii. Lying of the Ego – the illusion of self and conscious mind

iv. Lying of Continuity of Existence – the illusion of singularity

III.

THE GRAND ENEMY CALLED I

YISUN sat once with his disciple Hansa in YISUN’s second clockwise glass palace. Hansa was one of his most ardent students and a grand questioner of YISUN. Unlike Yisun’s other disciple, Pree Ashma, he had no hunger in his heart for dominion of the universe, but a miserly scrutiny and a heart of iron nails. He was not an aspirant for royalty, and thereby attained it through little effort.

Hansa’s questions were thus:

‘Lord, how must I question space?’

‘With an age, an ant may encircle a giant five million times,’ spoke YISUN.

‘Lord, how then may I question time?’

‘A giant’s stride takes an ant a week to surpass.’ YISUN spoke and smiled in the 4th way.

Hansa was discontent with this answer and rubbed the stem of his long and worn pipe which he always kept with him and would eventually lead to his annihilation. Since he was royalty, he knew this, and kept it close to him as a reminder of his circular death.

‘Lord, then which should I be, the giant or the ant?’

‘Both,’ spoke YISUN,’ or either, when it suits you. Destroy the grand enemy called ‘I’.’

Hansa contemplated this in silence. Later he would recount this proverb to his daughter.

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Yeah, even though it focuses entirely on esoteric otherworldly stuff I think this is probably the most Exalted-y webcomic, possibly including the actual Exalted webcomics. The text segments at the bottom remind me a lot of Dunsany. At the very least, it's an invaluable Malfeas inspiration.

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Yeah Kill Six Billion Demons is totally immense and really, I should have posted it up earlier. As soon as I found it I thought "holy fuck, so Exalted" (also Mage?) but never got around to showing it off a bit until the media thread kicked off.

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Yeah it does give inspiration for the Supernal the denizens and intriguing methods to use gnosticism in stories. Supernal Truth portrayed in scenes, parables, psalms and the like. Makes me think Buddhist Jataka stories are examples the supernal and past versions of reality.

But this is a very excellent method for including the Shinma in game. I can now see Deva/God/Raksha religions and cults following Shinma, and I finally see the Shinma anthropomorphized in the psalms.

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I like esoteric otherworldly stuff as it relates to Exalted because it gives a good reference point for what the arcane secrets to be found plumbing the depths of Malfeas or its glass libraries, or the tombs of the Neverborn, or the shifting currents of the Wyld actually are, and from there you can branch off into thinking of what kinds of cool shit to make out of them.

I once thought of the idea of an Exalt investigating the strange etiquette and protocol of Yozi communication amongst and within themselves, which could be used as the basis for a complex information retention and transmission system.

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